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If you don't have contacts then make contacts. If you don't have anything to show, then make something to show.

If you are a developer/designer, here are some suggestions:

1. Don't leave your existing job unless you have enough money in bank to sustain for a year or two.

2. If you don't have projects to show in your portfolio, then do some projects. There are endless possibilities. You can make and sell themes(wordpress/shopify/etc), html templates, plugins, mobile apps, etc. You can also offer free development/design services to some startups in need[1]. You can take some existing popular website and redesign it for better UX.

3. Get your own website. Put your Projects/CV/Blog on it. Write blog posts related to your area of expertise. e.g., on UX design, how to do <something> with <xyz> language, etc.

4. Answer questions on sites like stackoverflow, quora, HN, reddit. Build your online reputation and contacts. Don't hesitate in sending mails and communicating with people you meet online. Ofcourse, don't spam.

5. Attend meetups. Not only technology meetups but any meetup that you can attend and possibly find clients.

6. Share your business card with people you meet. Tell them about what you do(freelancing). Ask them what they do. Think what you can do to make their life a bit easier.

7. Still if you don't have any projects, if possible, make small SAAS or Open Source products that can be of any use to someone.

It may take time. You need to toil hard. So have patience and keep working. :)

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[1] Here are some examples :

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842768 and its follow up : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860130

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1838273

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1838033

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836998
I totally got sound out of Pokemon Red! It was pretty choppy but I think that's because my Macbook Air can't quite manage to run the game at full realtime.
It's been even longer than that. If you look at most mobile phones with real key pads there will be a + on the 0 key. You hold 0 to dial the +.
Upvoted. I hear this sentiment quite a lot.
I am not a fan of errors on install either, and that was the main reason i liked node. Because of incompatible language versions, and somewhat confusing package managers, getting something running with ruby/python was an order of magnitude harder than with node.
I use Sloppy for this: http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/

SO topic on this subject: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094760/network-tools-tha...
And according to the article the video was 29 seconds long. Very short if someone wants to argue that the intention was to post the song...
Finally. Now if only more Android app developers would rely on an open OAuth model rather than forcing users to use the stock browser.
is this thing called lazarus because it is bringing pascal back from the dead?
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Wow, the Angular version is so small. Very impressed with the clean, readable, and terse code. Thanks guys.
"He is a libertarian, atheist, anti-feminist..."
I stopped reading when I saw his self-description
A significant part of Skype is written in pascal (Delphi) AFAIK.
Some 15 years ago, when I was a software developer, most of the "problem resolution" situations happened outside the office when we were not thinking exclusively on the problem itself. In some occasions, in the end of a very busy day, we would leave the office an hour earlier to give us more "off-time" to let the ideas flow in.
I think that pushing those over 100 hours a week worked in the beginning of industrialization where, really, more hours meant more products shipped. In our times, times of creativity, logging hours is irrelevant to productivity in general.
While a bit of competition is always good, why pick this over github or bitbucket?
the article refers to being bored. any drupal dev who is bored because they are talented and unchallenged should be contributing to core development. the OPs d.o profile shows contribution but not focused on a particular core initiative. the employer could be giving time over for that. contribution is satisfying and challenging. and much needed!!
If I do say so myself, a much better analysis of Ada Lovelace's contribution is my own blog post "Lovelace's Leap": http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/lovelaces-leap.html

For those, that don't know I run a charity called Plan 28 that is working on building Babbage's unrealized Analytical Engine: http://plan28.org/

The OP confuses the Analytical Engine and Difference Engine and from that I would guess his grasp of the subject matter isn't deep. To his point that Babbage wrote programs for the Difference Engine (sic) (I'm sure the OP means the AE), there are programs in The Science Museum in London on punched cards waiting to be executed: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/program-waits.html They were prepared by Babbage.
Is someone's self-labeling as anti-[insert any politically correct opinion] a good reason to dismiss one's argument?
No, but it does explain why his argument is as strident and stilted as it is.
This is a very useful resource, and it really is great to see it being done in such a professional manner, but I can't help but wish for the end of these Todo<blah> examples.

A todo app simply isn't complex enough to give users any sort of insight into which framework to choose.
There are so many other areas that are important yet completely uncovered in the code - things like authentication, ACL, mobile support, and plenty more examples that I just can't think of off the top of my head right now.

The idea behind this is fantastic, the execution is incredible, but the project choice is too limited in my eyes.
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I tried the first one and since I have Google's Feeling Lucky as the default search engine I ended up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak :)
Engineering schools and big engineering firms do the same.

I'd be very surprised if small (e.g. 5-10 person) law firms ever put any more effort into recruiting women than small tech firms.
A big thanks. I was struggling, early in the morning here on the east coast, to understand what was going on.
Apple finally agrees to pay for some intellectual propery
And Chrome for Android. I was surprised.
Not needed, copyright is implicit, the sign is just decoration.
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Win32 apps from smaller teams often happen to be using Delphi underneath: http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built...

As a dev environment Pascal is also (unsurprisingly) quite mature; both open source and commercial tools, a decent set of libraries, and a language designed to compile with blazing speed, which with modern extensions also has power somewhere in between C and C++.
Cool. It didn't really fit my (naive) stereotype of a hackernews reader, but then there are a lot of Oracle employees out there (including people like Guy Steele Jr).
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To avoid too much hassle, I once decided to only use classes. So instead of having #header, #nav and #footer, I had .header, .nav and .footer.

When learning CSS, we're told to use id's whenever we're targeting a unique element that isn't meant to repeat itself, hence the #header. So we apply this rule without looking too much into it, thinking it's wrong to use a class for unique elements like that, when it's actually not.

You just lose some readability in distinguishing unique elements from repeated ones, and you need to avoid using the same unique element twice. But ultimately your styling works the way you expect it to, and leave id's for anchors and JavaScript.
This is one of these 'unreadable on my tablet' articles, where sharing buttons cover the content (bad) and something disables pinch/zoom (inexcusable) for reasons I don't get.

FF's reading mode saved me, but is there any permanent workaround for problems like this? Addons?
Spot on. Probably the most accurate version would be:

"First, your competitors / enemies / adversaries ignore you. If everyone else also ignores you, then you die. If others pay attention to you, then your adversaries laugh at you. If your followers still take you seriously, then you keep living. That makes your adversaries mad, so they fight you. If you can withstand the legal and physical challenges of being fought by someone with deeper pockets or more weapons, then you keep living. If you still have the resources and support to continue, then you win. A sure victory with the peril of a thousand deaths."
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He is famous for some other things too, like xemacs, xscreensaver, and DNA Lounge.
Yeaaaaah. MRAs aren't exactly known for their even-handed and rational evaluation of anything involving women or women's issues.
When I last used Free Pascal(5+ years ago) it had a Delphi compatibility mode that worked "mostly correct" on the libraries I used. (changes needed, iirc, were minor)

Lazarus wasn't ready as an IDE at that time(lots of missing stuff, I used a text editor and the command line) but the story might be different today.

Edit: And it compiled fine on Linux!
I'm confused - is he correct or incorrect? Please justify your answer without using the ad-hominem fallacy.
No doubt this is a great resource for getting to know very basics of all these frameworks.

The thing is that the TODO application is way too simple and does not require solving any meaningful problems.
A much better and more realistic sample app would include at least handling basic relations between objects like users commenting under articles or voting on submissions. Say simple HN in JS MV* implementation would be a lot better resource.
Taking physics was not a requirement in my high school, in North Carolina, so I didn't take it.

Most people, even the best students (I was one of those), did not.

Disgusting, isn't it?
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I need a fast HTTP server for Windows which can proxy between 7 different applications and 3 different hosts. 5 of these apps are deployed on Tomcat. nginx, lighttpd are not directly available for Windows. Apache HTTPD seems slow due when huge number of connections are made as it creates a new thread.
There's a fallback according to the capabilities of the UA. For example I still can view the content of their website, which is a Wt app, with lynx. You can also do a wget and see what content you get.
If it was "absolutely clear", there'd be no need to test.
Go away, troll. This does not contribute anything to the discussion at hand and only shows that you don't want to process information that may contradict your own idea of fairness.
In a functional company / organization, isn't this supposed to be the role of a constructive/ functional board of directors or board of advisors, assuming that they meet with regularity or are involved in more of the decision-vetting process?
Babbage may have written programs for his Analytical Engine while he was building it.. so that makes him the first computer engineer, but I think the term "programmer" implies that someone specializes in writing "client" instructions for machines - thus, it is still valid to say that Lovelace was the first programmer.
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and/or the role of the board of directors or advisors. I'd prefer advisors who provided third-party, objective feedback and dissent if necessary rather than passive observers who are only interested in the positive outcomes of the company.
I'm impressed. It works like a charm with Pokemon Fire Red.
It does not: https://www.google.com/search?q=sftp+without+ssh
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This is an excellent case study unfolding in real time in the A/B Testing software industry on how large incumbent products (Adobe's Omniture - Test & Target) get killed by startups (Optimizely) .

The core of the issue seems to be something called MBox (http://www.managingecommerce.com/glossary/i-n/mbox) which is a mechanism for setting up a test e.g. Does A page perform better than B page - which is the essence of A/B testing. Of course, some genius strategist comes up with "our value is driven of by the number of tests/experiments that people run so lets set our pricing strategy of that" and then over time you slowly "capture more value than you create".

And then comes a startup which calls BS on that practice because most tests don't end up anywhere & they design a really radically simpler software that is not constrained by "per test" & other artificial constraints! They win by creating more value than they capture. More background on that topic here: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/09/does-open-conflict-with-maki...
It wasn't taught in any of the physics classes I took in the US circa 1990. As a matter of fact, I hadn't heard about it (by name) until watching a Jim Al Khalili documentary from the BBC. I suspect that proper treatment of the subject would have offended those in the US that still believe in the firmament of heaven.

(I'm only partly joking. My high school biology class had a chapter on evolution. The teacher said "I have to teach this but I won't be testing you on it. Read the chapter and let yourselves out when the bell rings." He then left the room.)
Apple? They can afford it, and have already demonstrated interest in having their own chips. At the current valuation, it'd not cost much more than ATi did when AMD bought them.
Programmers should not be forced to sacrifice flexibility from using function calls, objects or getters/setters in order to speed up a program. The performance hit from those things should either be miniscule or optimised away by the compiler as appropriate.
The physics courses I took (in both high-school and college) didn't generally deal with astronomy. Not sure how common that is. Instead they covered mostly "foundational" topics: general & special relativity, electricity & magnetism, mechanics, atomic structure, etc.
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I think that would be bending the meaning of 'programmer' to support a particular argument. He wrote programs for the machine, he is a programmer, as simple as that.
Even Oracle can't afford Oracle.
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That conclusion is wrong - the expansion of the universe will not tear apart galaxies because the stars are bound by gravity.
Note that you need a Stack Exchange account with 20 reputation to participate. Not that hard, but personally I'd prefer IRC!
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I'm not sure that's fair. I think both the majority of MRAs and feminists are egalitarians. It's the vocal crazies that cause us to characterize entire groups. I've seen it from both sides.

In any case, as yummyfajitas points out it's an ad-hominem argument. We should discuss the argument itself rather than the merits of the man making them.
Interestingly, E. A. Poe provided one of the first explanation of Olbert's paradox : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka:_A_Prose_Poem
It is: https://github.com/jpfau/gbajs/commits/master/bios.S
Why stay confused? Just go read jgrahamc's reply above. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4648430
Sound doesn't work on Firefox, this seems to be a common trend among newer webapps these days. Have you tried another browser?
I did simulations of spread of fire and smoke inside buildings with cellular automata for my BSc. CA's have lots of interesting applications in many different domains, even not related to science itself.
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webfaction. I think they offer great value for money and their support is awesome :)
It's great to see Lazarus finally maturing. What used to be done in an expensive IDE costing $$$ can now be done with free open source tools. Simply amazing.
What about the built in IIS web server?
Like with most things scientific, when one gets down to the fine details, it's hard to make any solid conclusion of who was "first."

It's most likely that Lovelace and Babbage had already had conversations about computing before the machine was fully concieved, and so while their individual insights may have been different, they ultimately come from a collaborative perspective.
Maintainer here. We are fully aware that todo apps are not enough to get a deep insight into frameworks. Think of it more as getting a little taste of each framework which will help you narrow down the choices. We're planning more fully featured apps in the future with the most popular frameworks. Stay tuned.
It seems a bit ridiculous to say you want to legalize non-commercial file sharing and then specifically cite TPB, a website full of ads and affiliate shitware doing billions of pageviews a month.

It really just detracts from the better arguments made. Do you want to shorten copyright and reform patents, or do you want to legalize very commercial file sharing?
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That seems like a nonsensical argument. Babbage's preserved notebooks which Plan 28 is studying clearly show Babbage designing the machine and instruction set (both of which changed over time) with specific programs in mind. There are even programs on punched card that he prepared. He clearly was programming.

Also, given that there was never an Analytical Engine built no one was a programmer in the sense of being a third-party who merely prepares programs for the machine rather than being involved in its design. The only way Lovelace could have prepared programs was if she was intimate with the design of the machine.

The design of machines and their programming going hand in hand was extremely common in the early days of computing. Just read about the IAS machine that von Neumann worked on, or Turing's design of the ACE. This was natural because they would have programs in mind when designing the instruction set (see, for example, the fact that the Pilot ACE had floating point because the designers knew what they were going to use it for).
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The comparison to the browser based web seems like a bad way to sell the idea. Not managing a huge stack is a pretty nice feature, and the comparison invites people to imagine managing the whole stack.

Why not just call it a sandboxed environment and delivery mechanism for untrusted native code?

Then a browser implementation demonstrates how great the security model is and how rich/capable the environment is.
Another good one is: use PyPy (assuming that it supports your code).
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Sounds like you're looking for a Sufficiently Smart Compiler[0]. James Hague has a good piece on why this might not be so desirable[1].

One of the reasons I'm fond of Python is that, while there is a tradeoff between flexibility and performance, it gives you the means to sacrifice flexibility to aid you in improving performance -- once you've identified what (if any) actual performance bottlenecks you face.

[0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler
[1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/40.html
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This isn't ridiculous at all. To use a parallel, you can commercially facilitate non-commercial dating as much as you like, and many websites make a killing out of doing so. If they were to facilitate commercial dating (prostitution), it would be a different matter, and that would be illegal in most places.

But as long as the main activity is legal, then of course it's also legal to commercially aid somebody in doing so. Entire industries are built on that fundamental logic.

Cheers,
Rick
Sounds great! Does something like that exist?
I deny that. Its may be easy to understand the idea; the code is no more enlightening than any other encoded algorithm. A couple of loops,comparing pairs of objects, triple assignment with a temp - what's that all about? You may be able to explain it/ teach it easier because its smaller, but the code is not transparent.

I'd suggest a recursive algorithm would code up far more transparently. E.g. Sort first half of the list; sort 2nd half of the list; merge the two half-lists. That's obvious at the top level; the details of merge are all that's left to explain. It also demonstrates dissecting a problem into smaller problems, so is a double lesson.
There are several flows possible with OAuth2. This is only one of them. So his critique is based on the total of OAuth2, not this small part that is fairly simple.
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And that, my kids, is why CSS sucks. Cascading is the most stupid "feature" ever. Just imagine that we could've had classes with inheritance instead, which would reduce time spent on debugging the selector mess it is now; browsers would also parse the styles much faster. And then we could build modules or components, themes and frameworks on top of that. Add a semantic constraint engine with parametric styles (so I can say if I want two elements to align in some way), support for calculations, and coding CSS would be fun instead of frustrating. One can dream, I guess...

A much better rant on CSS general sulkiness: http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/2006/09/25/ten-reasons-why-css-...
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No, but he sounds like a complete dickwad. What sort of sane person is against the notion that women should be equal? I doubt his understanding of feminism is much deeper than some garbage he read on an MRA site once, and thus it follows that he's likely to be wrong about a lot of other things due to having an axe to grind whilst simultaneously being an ignoramus.

I mean look at the description of his YouTube channel:

"What is equality? We in the men's rights movement believe in equality of opportunity, that as long as the playing field is level then the outcomes should not matter. The feminists tend to believe that equality of outcome is what matters, that the columns under men and women must match for there to be no more sexism. So what really matters at the end of the day is what you are comparing. Rights or outcomes? This is the foundation of our debate."

So essentially his entire worldview is based on a complete strawman. Skills.
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